E. F. Benson
1) Miss Mapp
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English
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The acclaimed author of Mapp and Lucia introduces the beloved Miss Elizabeth Mapp, a devious social climber, in this charming British comedy of manners.
In the English seaside village of Tilling, Miss Elizabeth Mapp keeps a thorough notebook about everyone's business, including her servants. Whatever information she can't collect through gossip, she discovers with the aid of opera glasses. Looking out from her window over High Street, she pays especially...
2) Colin
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English
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From the acclaimed author of Mapp and Lucia comes the gothic tale of a cursed aristocratic family and two brothers vying to claim its dark legacy.
On a visit to the Sussex town of Rye, Queen Elizabeth I found herself captivated-and soon seduced-by a penniless young shepherd named Colin Stanier. According to family legend, their encounter was orchestrated by the devil himself. Colin had made a Faustian bargain to win success in all of life's endeavors;...
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English
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"Mr Keeling, a virile and prosperous business man of fifty, of strong Puritan principles, and well-respected in his community, begins at the height of his success and prosperity, to feel a sense of dissatisfaction. He has an expensive home, ugly though grandly furnished, three grownup children, none of them distinguished by any unusual quality, and a sluggish wife, who is a garrulous disconnected talker, and inclined to be snobbish. In these he finds...
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Series
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Wildside Press LLC
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English
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The E.F. Benson Megapack collects 36 of Benson's horror stories, including such classics as The Bus-Conductor, The Room in the Tower, and The Thing in the Hall.
Included are:
AT ABDUL ALI'S GRAVE
THE MAN WHO WENT TOO FAR
THE CAT
GAVON'S EVE
THE DUST-CLOUD
THE SHOOTINGS AT ACHNALEISH
THE BUS-CONDUCTOR
THE HOUSE WITH THE BRICK-KILN
OUTSIDE THE DOOR
HOW FEAR DEPARTED FROM THE LONG GALLERY
THE CONFESSION
...6) Gavon’s Eve
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Gavon's Eve" is a short story by E. F. Benson, published in his 1912 collection titled The Room in the Tower, and Other Stories. Benson was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer. (Source: Wikipedia)
7) In the Tube
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"In the Tube" is a short story by E. F. Benson, published in his 1924 collection titled Visible and Invisible, and Other Stories. Benson was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer. (Source: Wikipedia)
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English
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Lucia is the most popular and well-read character written by E. F. Benson, there are six books in total, this volume contains the third and fourth instalments of this wonderfully satirical look at the petty squabbling and brinkmanship in the social circles of a small English village.
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English
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Excerpt: "These stories have been written in the hopes of giving some pleasant qualms to their reader, so that, if by chance, anyone may be occupying in their perusal a leisure half-hour before he goes to bed when the night and the house are still, he may perhaps cast an occasional glance into the corners and dark places of the room where he sits, to make sure that nothing unusual lurks in the shadow. For this is the avowed object of ghost-stories...
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English
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"Queen Lucia and Miss Mapp" collects together the first two novels of the "Mapp and Lucia" series by E. F. Benson, English novelist, short story writer, biographer, and archaeologist. In "Queen Lucia", first published in 1920, readers are introduced to the irrepressible Lucia and her unquenchable lust for power. She is a unique and forceful character, with a dangerous charm and outrageously pretentious tastes. First published in 1922, "Miss Mapp",...
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English
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This book is philosophical in its exploration of the nature and challenges of finding and being worthy of love. The lead characters are Princess Dodo, a beautiful, youthful middle-aged woman, and her serious-minded daughter. Dodo, who is optimistic, has survived two turbulent marriages to finally find true love in middle age. The story also revolves around Dodo's daughter Nadine and her inability to experience true love, as well as how she deals with...
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English
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Lucia's Progress and Trouble for Lucia are the fifth and sixth novels in E. F. Benson's Mapp and Lucia series. They chronicle the ongoing battles of his most famous and irrepressible characters - Mrs. Lucia Lucas and Miss Elizabeth Mapp. Both women have been used to dominating their social circles, the idyllic seaside village of Tilling proves too small for both of them. Lucia is the more deadly of the two, with lofty morals, pretentious tastes, and...
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English
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The Mapp and Lucia novels feature humorous incidents in the lives of (mainly) upper-middle-class British characters in the 1920s and 1930s, many of whom do not work for a living, who vie for social prestige and one-upmanship in an atmosphere of extreme cultural snobbery. Several of them are set in the small seaside town of Tilling, closely based on Rye, East Sussex, where the author Benson lived for a number of years and (like Lucia) served as mayor....
17) Lucia's Progress
Author
Publisher
Andrews UK
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
The fifth novel in E. F. Benson's classic 'Mapp and Lucia' comedy series following the lives of Emmeline "Lucia" Lucas and Elizabeth Mapp in the one-upmanship and snobbery of the 1920s/30s British social scene.
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English
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Excerpt: "There is not in all London a quieter spot, or one, apparently, more withdrawn from the heat and bustle of life than Newsome Terrace. It is a cul-de-sac, for at the upper end the roadway between its two lines of square, compact little residences is brought to an end by a high brick wall, while at the lower end, the only access to it is through Newsome Square, that small discreet oblong of Georgian houses, a relic of the time when Kensington...
20) Michael
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English
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There has never been a city that would be so inimitable. Most trains, too, completely ignore its existence and pass through it on the way to more useful stops. The story was supposed to strengthen many people during the First World War. The book is full of sentimentalism, but it describes well the different scenes of everyday life.
